Low IQ kills?

Research by Britain’s Medical Research Council (MRC) found that lower intelligence quotient (IQ) scores were associated with higher rates of heart disease and death, and were more important indicators than any other risk factors except smoking …

The MRC study, which analysed data from 1,145 men and women aged around 55 and followed up for 20 years, rated the top five heart disease risk factors as cigarette smoking, IQ, low income, high blood pressure, and low physical activity.

The researchers, led by David Batty of the MRC and Social and Public Health Science Unit in Glasgow, Scotland, said there were “a number of plausible mechanisms” which might explain why lower IQ scores could raise the risk of heart disease — in particular a person’s approach to “healthy behaviour.”

Those who ignored or failed to understand advice about the risks of smoking or benefits of good diet and exercise for heart health would be more likely to be at higher risk, they wrote in a study in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention

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I’m not one of these people who believe that all IQ tests tell us is jow good a person is at performing on that particular IQ test on that particular day. But I am skeptical that IQ is constant across a person’s life. Does anybody have a link to any relevant research?

You see you guys are just light-weights. But its more annoying with Cambria, because for example his posts have recently been reasonable. Or some of them. And yet for month after month we had this endless stupidity. Yet before that again, he seemed a reasonable person.

So its willful. Its a moral failure.

There isn’t anything I haven’t been right about, when all is said and done. The broad thrust of most of my concerns has come to pass.

The basketball story you told Cambria ? Where were Obama’s girlfriends?

All these conservatives supporting Obama? Were they right or was I?

People finally coming around to recognizing Kevin Rudd for the know-nothing, shallow idiot that he is. They could have read me on Catallaxy years ago talking about him in this way.

Reisman, Shostak, Buchanan …. All these guys would back me on interim monetary policy. So Cambria you were always full of shit. Lying to people that I didn’t know what I was talking about. Even SOON now recognizes that these guys are essentially saying what I’m saying.

Month after month you lied to people and claimed I didn’t know what I was talking about. But its clearly as much a moral failure as mental failure on your part.

Thats a confession. Aside from an oil price prediction, that would have needed recession to be avoided (admittedly unrealistic, since the oil price itself would have brought on the recession) you cannot find anything. Your confession comes with not being able to come up with a specific example.

Who are you calling primitive you primitive? We have no idea who his girlfriends were and frankly if he was bonking blokes in his youth, me and lots of other people don’t really give a shit like you seem to, you militant heterosexual goose.

I reported on a basket ball story when he was a kid. Shoot me for not even thinking about if he had girlfriends at the time. I committed a crime?

Look you fat, bald little turd, bonking blokes these days isn’t a crime. No one gives a shit except foul mouthed, red neck imbeciles like you.

And Turkey, it’s not that I don’t know what evidence is. The problem here is that you don’t know what sexuality is. You believe, and have repeatedly asserted, that it’s a by-product of the fractional reserve system of banking that’s existed for the past few centuries. You’re an epistemological black hole, so don’t think you can lecture others on the nature of evidence.

The testimony is from Larry Sinclair. There is no testimony to do with him being straight prior to Michelle.

No. Be specific, you clown. Show us the exact testimony. And please, try to accept some basic logic. Any lack of testimony about girlfriends would not automatically mean that Obama is gay, or even that you have a ‘high level of confidence’. However, your stupid levels are up to 99% on this one, and your insane paranoia has hit omega levels of eleventy.

Now show us the evidence, or retract, and admit your serial dishonesty.

I’ll fill you in THR. Larry Sinclair is a known drug-addict, criminal and lunatic. Bird’s reference to him giving “testimony before that National Press Club” (Yes, and WTF? The NPC is now the Supreme Court?) is simply another example of Loopy Lardarse Logic.

“Let birdlab and I back on the site. I promise I will treat phil very nicely and agree with every nut-ball thing you say.”

You wouldn’t treat Phil nicely. You’ve always been a pig to her. And where I’m concerned its not the insults that really piss me off. Its the persistent dishonesty and attempts to distort what I’m saying. Plus you are an evasive and stupid wop. You never accounted for your CO2 bedwetting or your support of bank socialism. There are more than one type of bailout you know. You didn’t have to support a type of bailout so antithetical to law, order and liberty.

A reasonable bailout would have been to send truckloads of cash around at very high interest rates and let them sink or swim but with a lot of cash in the system. That would have been reasonably in line with the non-banking public interest.

What is repulsive about you Cambria, is you are incredibly happy with a situation wherein there is one rule for one crowd and another rule for everyone else. But capitalism is a system where the rules are the same for everyone. What this does is make you and open supporter of corporate fascism. And a traitor to and a distorter or authentic human liberty.